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“Whoever is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed
of them when he comes in his glory” – Jesus. (Luke 9) Yup. That’s right. Jesus said that. What Jesus says before this is a
true reflection of what Jesus is asking of you and you better count the cost.
You need to let Him lead. You need to let Him take the drivers seat. I remember the first time I didn’t share Jesus when I should of because
I was scared of what some people would think about me. Afterward I was reminded
of this scripture. Jesus would be ashamed of me? But there was an intimate
truth and conviction that came after that thought. This was my conviction; Jesus absolutely loves me. He went through suffering, rejection, being
falsely accused, whipped, humiliated and hung on the cross, for me. That was how Jesus displayed His
love for me. This is how I know God loves me. The intimate part of this truth
is hard to express in words, but when I felt ashamed of not sharing Jesus’ love
to somebody, I felt that I h…

Distress that drives us
to God does that. It turns us around. It gets us back in the way of salvation.
We never regret that kind of pain. But those who let distress drive them away
from God are full of regrets, end up on a deathbed of regrets. 2
Corinthians 7 I remember a time before I had believed in Jesus when
I felt so much pain that I wanted to die. I wanted the pain to just stop. The
thing was, it was my own actions that had brought me to that point. Whether if
it was through my own blindness or through lack of wisdom, I had driven my self
to a point of hopelessness. I had no one to comfort me. I remember a time since I have believed in Jesus that
I felt so much pain that I wanted Jesus to just sweep me up and take me home to
Him. I remember being on my hands and knees and the pain within me was so
excruciating I didn’t know what else to do but scream and yell. “You don’t know
what its like God!! You don’t know what this feels like! You have no idea!” His
response came at me soft a…

-PERSECUTION; - - harass or annoy (someone) persistently - - subject (someone)
to hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of their race or political
or religious beliefs. One of the first and most important lessons I learnt about being a
Christian was that I could expect persecution, but persecution as a blessing. As I wrote in a previous post, when I first believed in Jesus I was
quick to share about my faith with a guy that I worked with, who turned around
and told my other work mates who then all made fun of me and laughed and
pointed out all the things still wrong with me. Boy, here I am sharing the best news that I have ever heard and I am
getting put down and insulted and pretty much told that I am still a sinner! I
was really thrown. Why was God allowing this to happen to me? Why isn’t He
showing them Jesus the same way he had shown me? I was forgetting, of course, I
used to do the same thing to Christians and had taken 20 years for me to
realize the truth of Je…

What
does Jesus mean when he says "Then you will know the truth, and the truth
will set you free”? What
is the truth? What is it to be free? I searched for the meaning of freedom
and the result was the below;

1 1. The
power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants. 2.2. The
state of not being imprisoned or enslaved. Liberation, release, delivery, non-
confinement.

To
me, I don't think meaning 1 leads to meaning 2, and I don't
believe Jesus was talking about the sort of freedom that meaning 1 describes. When
I was 16 years old, I remember that I couldn't wait to be 18. 'Absolute
freedom!" I told myself. The freedom to be who I wanted. No more taking
orders from my parents, no more having to go to school and doing my homework
every night. Eat what I want when I want and live where I wanted to. My friends
and I would fantasise about being able to drive anywhere without our
parents and being able to legally buy alcohol and drink it where ever, when
ever. B…

When
Jesus made salvation plain to me when I was 21-22 years old, it was literally
life changing. It was pretty intense and so real to me. But, if you asked some
people that I knew, what I was like before I encountered Jesus,
they would paint a very anti God picture of me. I
went to a private Christian High School. I was made to sit through chapel every
morning, I had to go to scripture classes, we even had a scripture camp in year
8. Talk about boring. My parents were not Christian, I didn't attend church,
even on special occasions and I hated people walking around talking about God.
I would even take my lunch break to go to Christian information sessions to
argue with Christians and tell them that they were bonkers. People
persisted and were patient with me. Thank God. But the good part is when I
finally turned to God, people who knew me where in shock, even the
Christians who had preached the gospel to me. One high school buddy who was Christian even
commented to my brother say…

I
remember before I knew God, Christians used to tell me about what Jesus did for
me on the cross, I would think and say to them how crazy it sounded. Why would
God allow himself to be beaten, whipped and nailed to a cross? Nailed to a
cross? That's crazy talk I would say to them. "If he was God, why wouldn't
he just jump of the cross and destroy everyone who was trying to get rid of
him?" It
really is foolishness to people who don't know God, who don't understand what
Jesus did. And even though at the time when people where telling me about
Jesus, I argued and believed that they where nuts. I am glad that they told me.
More than glad. Remembering
one particular moment in my life before I knew God, I was in quite a bad place.
My brother said to me "you know Jesus can help you," and I said in
reply "Jesus put me here!". I thought he was crazy. God can help me
in this? "The
Message that points to Christ on the cross seems like sheer sillin…

“Ask and
it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and
the door will be opened to you. Matthew 7:6-8 What
a verse. One of the first things that God taught me is that I should always ask
Him for what ever I need and not be timid about it. Early on in my Christian
walk God showed me what faith in Him can really do. He did this in-part so that
He could show Him self to be trust worthy to me. I know He doesn't need to
prove anything to me, but He does know that I am a man who does not always
trust so easily. On
a number of occasions, God has provided what I needed which seemed impossible
to get, but on one occasion He showed me how important it really is to Him. I
went for my motor bike license and at the end of it, 20 out of 21 people got
their license. There was one lady who did not get her license and when I
noticed this, God said to me to go and tell her 'don't be disheartened'.
Now I have never used this word before so I was reluctant to say
anything. On …

"Every
person the Father gives to me eventually comes running to me. And once that
person is with me, I hold on and don't let go."- Jesus. (John 6:37-38 MSG) A
great thing happens to you when you believe in Jesus. When you take that step
towards Him and trust him to pick you up and hold on to you. He promises to
NEVER let you go. My
God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. When he made a promise to never
let me go He knew the mistakes I had made yesterday. He knew the mistakes I
would make today. He knew the mistakes I was going to make tomorrow and yet He
still said to me on that very day, knowing things I didn't know, that His
forgiveness AND grace is sufficient for me. For
the purpose of this blogs subject, I said them in this order for a reason,
forgiveness first and grace second. Firstly, if you know Jesus, God knowing all
of your past, present and future mistakes says to you that He forgives you.
Secondly, there are different aspects of grace that God has ma…